1 October 1776

Hoff, Joseph, fl. 1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the canons he was ordered to make. Work had stopped from lack of communication but was restarting, and Hoff seeks instructions on what to make. Also indicates that he has the opportunity to hire additional moulders, one of which was the letter bearer, his brother, John Hoff. Assures Knox his iron will make good canons. Hoff ran a foundry called Hibernia Furnace.

GLC02437.00462

circa 6 October 1776

Hoff, Joseph, fl. 1776

Manuscript document

Title: John Hoff Memoranda for Col: Knox

Autograph endorsement signed on verso by Henry Knox, written from Mt. Washington, [New York] dated 6 October 1776, requests that Lieutenant Samuel Treat be granted passage over King's Bridge. John Hoff's memoranda explains the content and circumstances of the delivery (by John Hoff) of a letter from Joseph Hoff, owner of Hibernia Furnace, to Colonel Thomas Mifflin, requesting instructions for an order of artillery pieces (see GLC02437.00462). Since Mifflin went to Philadelphia, the letter is going to Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00463